Alessandro Vesely writes: > I'm unclear how adding a Reply-To:, depending on users' clients is > going to affect mailing list traffic. For an alternative, when the > usual action is to reply to mailing list, it seems to me to be > smoother to just mangle the From: so as to make it like so: > > John Doe <john....@example.org.remove.the.TRAILING.PARTS> > > Although the addition of capitalized anti-spam diversions in the > domain part of email addresses is still en vogue in several mailing > list, this method never gained traction. Why?
I would guess the main reasons are that it's ugly and makes the convenient automatic field-filling features of MUAs inaccurate, especially those MUAs that don't actually present the address (which are very common these days). Steve -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull/sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
